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Saturday, July 15, 2017

15 July - Blogs I'm Following 2 of 2

Do you remember the infamous "g-2" measurement ? The determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon has been for over a decade on the agenda of HEP physicists, both as a puzzle and as a hope for good things to come. Ever since the Brookhaven laboratories estimated the quantity at a value over 3 standard deviations away from the equally precise theoretical predictions, the topic (could the discrepancy be due to new physics??) has been commonplace in dinner table conversations among HEP physicists. read more

Gore’s film was mainly a litany of naturally occurring extreme weather events that were randomly put together without any historical context. They would have occurred whether you drive a car and use electricity… or not.

PDF: [image: PDF icon] 20170715-food-peace.pdf During his two-day state visit to France, President Donald Trump has continued to build working relationships with President Xi Jinping of China; with President Vladimir Putin of Russia; and with other sensible heads of state, who are waking up to the fact that the future of humanity lies outside the controlled geopolitical game of the British Empire. With French President Emmanuel Macron at his side at a joint press conference two days ago, Trump praised China's Xi as a "man of quality, [who] loves China." He described Russia's Putin...more »

[image: u-s-doctor-will-be-allowed-to-examine-baby-charlie-gard] A significant turn of events has transpired for Charlie Gard and his parents, as a U.S. physician will be allowed to examine and assess the child for possible treatment.

*SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017Misfiring all the way down:* The New York Times does some horrible work at the top of this morning's front page. The Times has dug up the bones of Tailgunner Joe. Covering the same news event, the Washington Post performs a hundred times more capably. To what news event do we refer? Yesterday, the world learned that a previously unmentioned person was present at Donald Trump Junior's now-famous meeting in June 2016. That person's name is Rinat Akhmetshin. As the Times begins its front-page report, try to catch the general gist of Eileen Sullivan's portrait...more »

*Indian Express:* *What is China’s military strength?* The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the defence service force of China. PLA was formed in 1972 and it comprises ground forces, naval forces, artillery, armed police and air force. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the defence service force of China. PLA was formed in 1972 and it comprises ground forces, naval forces, artillery, armed police and air force. Chinese law mandates mandatory military service for its citizens and the bulk of the force is made of personnel in the age bracket of 18-49 years. Due to the huge...more »

*Reuters:* *China air force says conducted 'multiple' long-range missions this week* BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force said on Saturday that its fighters and bombers conducted "multiple" long-range drills far out at sea this week, including flying near Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, in what it said was a test of its ability to operate over the sea. In a statement on its official microblog, the air force said its aircraft had flown through both the Miyako Strait - which lies between two southern Japanese islands - and the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan and the Philippines. ...more »

The week at Retraction Watch featured the story of a group devastated to learn that they had used the wrong mice in their experiments, and the tale of how keycard swipe records gave away faked data. Here’s what was happening elsewhere: In China, “scientists who publish in the top Western journals can earn in excess of […] The post Weekend reads: Six-figure publishing bonuses; Google’s scientific influence campaign appeared first on Retraction Watch.

Courtesy of The Guardian: *An explosive article written by two close associates of Pope Francis has accused Steve Bannon, the chief White House strategist, of espousing an “apocalyptic geopolitics” whose roots are “not too far apart” from that of Islamist extremism. * *The article in La Civiltà Cattolica, which is vetted by the Vatican before publication, lays out a scathing critique of “evangelical fundamentalism” in the US, arguing that, on issues ranging from climate change to “migrants and Muslims”, proponents of the ideology have adopted a twisted reading of scripture and t...more »

*Warfare History Network* *Security, * Yes, he lost. Once. The road to Fort Driant began for the United States Third Army when it landed on Utah Beach at 3 pm on August 5, 1944. The Third Army had been activated four days earlier in England under the command of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. The four corps that made up the Third Army were VIII Corps under Maj. Gen. Troy H. Middleton, XII Corps under Maj. Gen. Gilbert R. Cook (later replaced by Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy), XV Corps under Maj. Gen. Wade H. Haislip, and XX Corps under Maj. Gen. Walton H. Walker. Walker was one of Pa...more »

*David Axe* *History, * Yes, it could have happenned. In December 1860, the United States was on the brink of civil war. South Carolina’s legislature had already passed an ordnance of secession and other states would soon follow suit. The nation’s capital Washington, D.C. was in a perilous position. Surrounded by secessionist Virginia and ambivalent Maryland, the undefended city would soon find itself within quick marching distance of Confederate armies. In 1860, the U.S. Army was busy fighting natives out West. Worse, many city residents — in particular, the family and friends...more »

*Shlomo Ben-Ami, The Strategist:* *The next phase of Middle East conflict* With the battles of Mosul and Raqqa dislodging the Islamic State (ISIS) from its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, and the Syrian civil war becoming a war of attrition, the Middle East’s most acute conflicts are evolving fast. But that doesn’t mean they will soon be resolved. ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate was never a state that could be driven to unconditional surrender, meaning that the battles of Mosul and Raqqa were never going to be decisive, even if they did eliminate ISIS sanctuaries. As ISIS’s spread ...more »

*Patrick Tucker, Defense One*:* Russian Weapons Maker To Build AI-Directed Guns* Kalashnikov’s upcoming product shows how the US and Russia are on wildly different paths to autonomy. The maker of the famous AK-47 rifle is building “a range of products based on neural networks,” including a “fully automated combat module” that can identify and shoot at its targets. That’s what Kalashnikov spokeswoman Sofiya Ivanova told TASS, a Russian government information agency last week. It’s the latest illustration of how the U.S. and Russia differ as they develop artificial intelligence and...more »

*Ben Watson, Defense One:* *What Was The Largest Battle Of The Decade Say About The Future Of War* The bloody battle to wrest Mosul from ISIS was the world’s largest military operation in nearly 15 years. Here’s how Western-backed Iraqi soldiers helped break the Islamic State’s grip on a city of more than 1 million people — and what we can learn from it. *DAY ONE* The Mosul offensive began on October 17, 2016, when a variegated body of more than 100,000 troops—local volunteers, regular soldiers, elite Iraqi and Western special forces—collapsed on the country's second-largest ci...more »

UKROGATE is the real foreign meddling scandal in the 2016 US Presidential election. These are just some of the people who should be thoroughly investigated for their ties to Kiev. The post 6 Americans who should be investigated for their Ukrainian ties appeared first on The Duran.

Assorted content for your weekend reading. - The Economist observes that the effects of climate change fall disproportionately on poorer people, rather than the wealthier ones who have caused more of the damage: The costs of global climate change will again be unevenly (and uncertainly) distributed, but harm will often be smaller for richer, temperate countries. As a result the estimated economic loss from warming is almost certainly understated, because the nastiest effects are concentrated in places where incomes are lowest: and, correspondingly, where tumbling incomes have the s...more »

[image: undefined] In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration. The bill has a base $621.5 billion funding, and $75 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which includes at least $10 billion that are earmarked as part of the OCO but intended to be spent on domestic military spending. The bill was supported by a majority of Democrats, and the overwhelming ma...more »

[image: undefined] In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration. The bill has a base $621.5 billion funding, and $75 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which includes at least $10 billion that are earmarked as part of the OCO but intended to be spent on domestic military spending. The bill was supported by a majority of Democrats, and the overwhelming ma...more »

[image: undefined] In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration. The bill has a base $621.5 billion funding, and $75 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which includes at least $10 billion that are earmarked as part of the OCO but intended to be spent on domestic military spending. The bill was supported by a majority of Democrats, and the overwhelming ma...more »

[image: undefined] In a 344-81 vote yesterday, the House of Representatives passed their version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a $696 billion spending bill which far exceeds the amount of money sought by the Pentagon and the Trump Administration. The bill has a base $621.5 billion funding, and $75 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) fund, which includes at least $10 billion that are earmarked as part of the OCO but intended to be spent on domestic military spending. The bill was supported by a majority of Democrats, and the overwhelming ma...more »

*Newsnight*'s Mark Urban remains one of the best and least predictable of BBC reporters. It's rare to find tweets like these on BBC reporters' Twitter feeds, so they stand out even more sharply and, therefore, are worth pointing out, even if only as exceptions that prove the rule:

This news is really tragic because the death is truly premature. Maryam Mirzakhani, the world's first female Fields Medal winner and Persia's first winner of that award, died of breast cancer at an American hospital today. The disease was recurrent and things became terrible when the disease spread to the bone marrow. She was born in 1977 to parents who always supported her even though they weren't ever too ambitious, she once told me. Her father Ahmad is an electrical engineer. Maryam is also survived by her Czech husband Jan Vondrák, a computer scientist at Stanford and their da...more »

From Jenna Orkin Republican donor kills himself after talking about working with Russian hackers to get Hillary Clinton's emails 16-year-old in custody after 5 people were attacked with acid in London From acne to pregnancy, here's every 'preexisting condition' that could put your insurance at risk under the Senate's healthcare bill The Striking Reason Why The US Just Spent A Record $429 Billion In One Month Antarctica's colossal new iceberg is doomed — here's what will happen next These beautiful tiny homes cost less than $20,000 to build — take a look inside Soldier charged wi...more »

Kathleen Parker is -- like her colleague George F. Will -- a conservative columnist who writes for *The Washington Post*. Neither are fans of Donald Trump. Parker claims that Trump illustrates the law of unintended consequences. He is uniting the country -- against him: He has brought Republicans and Democrats together as only just wars can. He’s brought women, scientists, minorities, teachers, journalists, professors — and no, they’re not all liberal — out of their favorite laptop seats and moved them to march, protest and, most important, run for public office. The pink-capped ...more »

*Is educational discrimination ruining America?* *I see it as a thinly disguised propaganda sheet so I rarely read the NYT. The following article by David Brooks has however come to my attention. He is apparently their token conservative.There are two subjects which are just about "verboten" in the popular press and even in most academic journals: Social class and IQ. And, for my sins, I have done academic research into both. Both offend mightily against the Leftist dream of equality so are "incorrect". But both factors form part of the explanation ...more »

*The only primaries these 4 should be involved with is defending themselves* Forget that you may have an inkling that here at *DWT* we feel Pelosi's incompetent and corrupt DCCC has become a source for both evil and failure over the last decade, rather than a worthwhile and constructive party organ. One of my first beefs with them-- under Rahm-- is how they tried to dictate-- despite their own "rule" to the contrary-- who Democratic nominees should be. They claim they don't, but they do-- all the time. I asked a couple of dozen candidates for their views on the DCCC endorsing in pri...more »

*"The Independent" doubles down: Hockeystick revived* *"The Independent", known to irreverent people as "The Subservient", is a struggling British broadsheet newspaper which has now gone online only. In its struggle to differentiate itself the newspaper has set itself up as the British Greenie newspaper. They have hitched their wagon to the global warming star. Scarcely a day goes by without them promoting it. Their latest is a heavy cannon in that war.It is based on a recent statistical study called "A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstr...more »

*7/13/2017: “Pilot Who Heard Every Word Of Clinton/Lynch * *Secret Meeting Breaks His Silence”* by DM Jones "The pilot who flew the plane for the secret meeting between Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch and, recently disclosed, Paul Ryan, is breaking his silence for a $2 million payday that is sure to put his life in danger. Dimitri Noonan, a pilot who has worked for the Justice Department for 25 years, has codeword clearance but says none of the meeting was classified, since officially it didn’t happen. According to Noonan: “The three of them sat like old friends and discussed strategi...more »

*"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”* - Shiva *Updated July 15, 2017: Fukushima Equals 14,873.7 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: *The 3 melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, now melted together into a single "corium" totaling over *600 tons*, at Fukushima *daily* release the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs directly into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. As of July 15, 2017 - 2,306 days since the disaster began - this equals the detonation of 14,873.7 Hiroshima atomic bombs and it is still ...more »

I have actually watched this guy's channel before, and thought it was mildly interesting, and certainly NOT politicized in any way. But then I am not among those who thought that NPR tweeting the Declaration of Independence was an attack on Dear Leader. Courtesy of Munchies: *Townsends, a popular cooking channel with almost 300,000 subscribers and hundreds of videos, specializes in 18th-century cooking and lifestyle content. It's where you might go to learn how to make parched corn or salt-glazed pottery—and it unintentionally ignited a firestorm when it released a video on July...more »

Ukraine's ageing nuclear power facilities are unfit for purpose and post a Chernobyl style danger to the region. Even if the endlessly delayed safety upgrades ever do get completed, there are still many pressing questions that both Ukrainian and European officials are afraid to answer due to political embarrassment. The post UKRAINE: a ticking nuclear time-bomb appeared first on The Duran.

(IRNA) The Intelligence Forces of Iran’s Kerman province confiscated several weapons from a house belonging to a suspected terrorist, the Chairman of the General Court Hossein Salami stated this morning. According to the public relations office of Narmashir General Court, intelligence forces have arrested two people involved in buying and selling weapons in eastern Kerman. […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:50 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) resumed their field operations in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, today, striking the defenses of Faylaq Al-Rahman inside the ‘Ayn Tarma Triangle. Backed by their air force, the Syrian Arab Army’s 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard carried out a special operation this morning that […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:00 P.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is on a mission to clear the large portion of territory under the Islamic State’s (ISIL) control in central Syria. Since launching their offensives in the Hama, Homs, and Al-Raqqa governorates, the Syrian Arab Army has managed to liberate dozens of villages, oil and gas […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (1:25 P.M.) – More photos have emerged showing Turkish self-propelled artillery units being transported towards the Syrian border. The latest images serve as further evidence that Turkey is building up its military forces inside and on the border of northern Syria – something which previous photos reveal has now been going on for […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:15 A.M.) – More than 500 protesters marched toward the 10th Tanker Base Command military base in Incirlik on Friday, which was allegedly where jets involved in the 2016 coup attempt took off from. The base is used by both the Turkish and United States military. On July 15, 2016, at least 265 people […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:40 A.M.) – The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of several villages and oil fields in southern Al-Raqqa and southwest Deir Ezzor this morning. According to the statement released by the Ministry of Defense, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies liberated the following oil fields: Al-Wahab Al-Fahd Dabisan Al-Qusayr […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

“Aliens” = Fallen Angels and the Nephilim. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 (New King James Version) 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, […]

Courtesy of The Guardian: *All new cars sold in Europe will be electric within less than two decades, driven by government support, falling battery costs and economies of scale, a Dutch bank has predicted. * *However, ING warned that with battery-powered vehicles accounting for 100% of registrations in 2035 across the continent, European carmakers would lose out to their rivals in the US and Asia who already lead on battery production. * *The forecast is much more aggressive than most other projections, such as the UK’s National Grid which on Thursday said it expects 90% of new ca...more »

“The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured – disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui – in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while...more »

*“Zachary”* by Tim Knight “A handwritten letter arrived in my mailbox last week from a reader. In it was a note from whom I would guess is an elderly gentleman, thanking me for my work both on Slope and on Tastytrade, but politely asking me to use the phrase "God damn it" less frequently, since he found it upsetting. The handwriting on the paper trembled like leaves in an autumn breeze, and it was obvious it took time and effort to send me this two-page missive. It meant something to him. It never occurred to me that I ever used this phrase in a video, let alone often enough to ca...more »

I had to smile at this fresh-in tweet from Guido Fawkes: I'm not sure where Guido's got the idea that this is "new" from. The BBC has been pushing something close to this line for at least the past year.

The *Guardian* has a gleeful write-up of pianist Igor Levit's pro-EU encore after his performance of Beethoven's *Third Piano Concerto *at the First Night of the Proms last night. Mr Levit, sporting an EU pin throughout, returned to play part of Liszt's transcription of the 'Ode to Joy' from Beethoven's *Ninth Symphony* - aka 'the EU anthem' - with added improvisations of his own. He was making a point. According to the *Guardian*, Mr Levit "sneaked" it in: The BBC News website's own account, however - headlined 'EU anthem played at Proms' first night' - makes it clear that I...more »

Mia's first day program day July 2016 By Kim Rossi My daughter Mia has autism and is in a day program here in Connecticut. She goes five days per week with transportation. While she is at her program I work...

[image: Image result for Heart Disease] The take home here is to pay serious attention to heavy metal removal from your body. Our system of medical delivery has been heavily corrupted by big pharma through mostly indoctrination during a doctors training. Massive research during the past three decades is slowly over turning this corruption but most of us must still go out and heal ourselves. It is plausible that this is the hidden cause of our whole cardiovascular problem. . *Understanding, Treating and Preventing Heart Disease* *Published on June 27, 2017* *Introducti...more »

This also begs another question and that is why we have scant evidence of such contact in Eurasia? We even have real archeology in the Americas while the alien narrative ends after the end of the Bronze Age in Eurasia. It may well have been a voluntary withdrawal in order to give us free rein to properly develop. It could also have been a situation in which only small teams were ever present and then only briefly., . *Native Americans Have No Fear Of Aliens - Here's Why* * http://www.theeventchronicle.com/galactic/native-american-cultures-no-fear-extraterrestrials-here...more »

I have been generally dismissive of most super early dates. Most have been in sediments or coal of some sort subject to compression. Our understanding of that environment is at least suspect and subject to serious revision. Material can also become plastic and engulf much harder objects as well. Yet every out of place item raises those same questions. To start with, time travel will turn out to be both viable and essentially safe with a minimum of care. That does make far past expeditions completely viable and even attractive. After all if a disturbance is detected it is ...more »

Reading ahead, i have come to understand that this particular city is likely Poverty Point on the Mississippi, rather than Bristol Bay. It all then makes excellent sense. It could also be a city now called Aztlan in Illinois as well or other undiscovered alternates. What is most telling is the Barbarian pressure which eliminates island cities. The great circle route actually supports a body of records been transported upon the abandonment of Powder Point and transported to the area of Bristol for safe keeping by the Druids. There is much we do not know regarding the efforts...more »

By Anne Dachel July 6, 2017, ExitEvent.com: UNC Autism Experts’ Startup Frees Teachers to Help Special Ed Students Succeed In the U.S., 13 percent of children participate in IEPs as designated special education students. That figure will likely increase given...

Emma Barnett, pursuing her bone There was a moment of irony on this week's *Newswatch *when occasional *Woman's Hour *presenter Emma Barnett found herself being accused of 'gender stereotyping': *Samira Ahmed*: Another political interview caused more controversy this week, one conducted on Thursday by Emma Barnett for Radio 5 Live. She asked the Prime Minister how she reacted on election night when she saw the exit poll. *Emma Barnett*: Did you have a cry? How did you feel? *Theresa May*: Well I felt, erm, I suppose, devastated really. *Emma Barnett*: Devastated enough to shed a t...more »

Popularizers of science often want the laymen feel excited. So they say "this experiment is amazing", "this experiment is magical". At the end, I think that this hype creates more damages than benefits. Four months ago, we were being persuaded that the Chinese have constructed a quantum radar, something that can inform you about an airplane without any actual reflection of any radiation from the airplane. This is obviously impossible by locality, whether you use any quantum subtleties or not. Right now, we're told about another wonderful achievement by the Chinese. They have succ...more »

That video is of an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem, by the Palestinian cleric Sheikh Nadhal Siam, also known as "Abu Ibrahim". He criticized the Saudi and Qatari regimes, which, he said, were "immersed in collaboration" with the Americans and the English, respectively. His prayers to Allah to "enable us to slaughter" the Americans, the Europeans and the "criminal and treacherous" Arab rulers were answered by cries of "Amen" from his audience. His words which I quote below are the sort of hate-speech by Palestinian and other Islamist clerics that the BBC and other pro-Pal...more »

at the recent Alien Cosmic Expo, *once-Canadian Defense Minister* Paul Hellyer spills the beans on the wicked machinations of the Cabal i.e. High Finance Groups, around the world including 9/11 and other forms of abject terrorism. Don't live like a slave, demand *NO MORE LIES*. PS: if Hellyer thinks that 'global warming is rampant' he needs to a) look at the incoming ice-age data and b) look at the Electric Universe, which will give him a much more accurate view of reality than 'some new energy system' that's not even tested positive yet. Though I commend Hellyer for coming forw...more »

Oh dear, the American president has really gone and done it now! He told Brigitte Macron, "You're in such good shape". It's got everyone from CNN to the *Guardian *reaching for the smelling salts - plus, of course, some at the BBC. Here's Jane Garvey, for example:

(IRNA) The swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s re-elected President Hassan Rouhani is to be held on August 5 in the Parliament (Majlis), a member of the presiding board of the legislative body said. Gholamreza Kateb told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) that in the ceremony, which is to be held from 5 pm to 8 […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:20 A.M.) – US military vehicles were operating inside Raqqa’s eastern Al-Mashlab neighbourhood, Thursday, after the area was retaken from self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL) by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in June. The Syrian Democratic Forces have seized a large portion of Raqqa City since launching their operation in the provincial capital […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:00 A.M.) – The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) continued their field operations in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, Friday, targeting Faylaq Al-Rahman’s last positions in ‘Ayn Tarma and Jobar. Led by the 105th Brigade of the Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army began the day by capturing the ‘Ayn Tarma Meat Market after […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:10 A.M.) – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and the delegation of the Syrian government headed by the country’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar Jaafari held talks at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Friday, on the penultimate day of the 7th round of Intra-Syrian talks. The meeting comes following […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

(TASS) Parties at the pan-Syrian talks managed to make definite progress but still there was no breakthrough, Staffan de Mistura, a special envoy of the UN Secretary General for Syria told the final news conference. He said the ending of the talks was neither a breakthrough nor a flop. According to De Mistura, the consultative […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) – Five police officers were shot dead at an Egyptian security checkpoint in the al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, on Friday, 30 km (20 miles) south of Cairo. Three gunmen are reported to have opened fire on the police officers, hurling petrol bombs before escaping on motorbikes. Hours after the murder of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

The extraordinary claim from Charles Moore that Laura Kuenssberg has been "given personal protection" by the BBC following online threats from Corbyn supporters is now being widely reported (everywhere from the* Sun* to the *Independent*, the *Mirror* to the* Telegraph*, the *Mail* to the UK Press Gazette, the *Evening Standard* to Metro, RT to the *Herald*, etc,), and a further BBC source has now been quoted reinforcing the story: Laura is a well-known public figure and as such the BBC has a duty of care. The very nature of covering politics means sometimes you go to events with b...more »

Michael Caputo was sent to Russia in 1994 by Bill Clinton. His job was to make sure Yeltsin won elections. The post Tucker Carlson interviews man who Bill Clinton sent to Russia in 1994 to meddle in Russian election appeared first on The Duran.

Published on Jan 5, 2014 Dommergue is a critic of contemporary claims concerning the Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi Germany. He is especially critical of the claim that the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was six million, as he claims that there were not even this number of Jews living in Germany or occupied […]

Published on Jul 13, 2017 A former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia says the kingdom is directly involved in funding extremism in Europe. William Patey accused the Saudis of funding and promoting the Salifist Wahhabi ideology urging Britain to address the matter with Riyadh. The ideology has inspired Takfiri terrorists across the globe including Daesh […]

US Relocating ISIS Terrorists by Stephen Lendman, http://www.stephenlendman.org In war theaters where ISIS operates, America supports the scourge it pretends to oppose, along with al-Nusra and other terrorist groups. An often used tactic involves relocating ISIS fighters from one area to another – last year from Mosul to Syria, currently from Raqqa to elsewhere in the country. […]

Published on Jul 13, 2017 The Israeli regime continues its policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied territories. Israeli bulldozers escorted by army units stormed a neighborhood in the town of Jabal al-Mukabir in Jerusalem al-Quds and brought down a Palestinian home. Palestinian commercial buildings were also demolished in the town of Silwan. Tel […]

China Warns Japan: “Get Used To Our Warplanes”, Sends Spy Ship Near Alaska by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com In an unexpectedly brazen rattling of sabers, just days after China deployed troops to its first foreign base in Djibouti, a move which the Global Times clarified is “about protecting its own security, not about seeking to control the world, Beijing made […]

Published on Jul 13, 2017 Josh Sigurdson interviews former congressman and host of The Liberty Report, Dr. Ron Paul. Dr. Paul responds to the Federal Reserve’s Janet Yellen’s delusional claim that we will not see another major crisis in our lifetime. He updates everyone on his views regarding the coming fiat dollar crash as medias […]

Published on Jul 14, 2017 Who is Natalia Veselnitskaya? The establishment left, the NeoCons and the Fake News Media want you to believe that she’s a Russian spy working with Team Trump to undermine our democracy. However a closer look reveals that Natalia Veselnitskaya might be a Deep State operative and Democrat plant to take […]

Medical BOMBSHELL: Chemotherapy Found to Spread Cancer by Mike Adams, http://www.naturalnews.com/ (Natural News) New research conducted at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found that chemotherapy spreads cancer throughout the body, causing a sharp increase in cancer cells circulating throughout the body (including the lungs). – Led by Dr. George Karagiannis, the research focused on chemotherapy treatment of breast […]

Today’s Fake CNN News: ‘Let’s Blow Up Russia’ by Steve Watson | http://www.Infowars.com Plus: Not recognizing the National Anthem, and more BS Trump handshake analysis – CNN has less viewers than 40 year old Yogi Bear cartoons, primarily because everything it broadcasts is either vacuous bullshit or grossly inaccurate. – Here are the latest examples… In […]

*"Fun With Slavery: Dark Spots in a Shining Sea of Twaddle"* by Fred Reed "Much is written about slavery and its aftermaths. A large part of this is frenetically modified history issuing from people both excited and poorly read, a comic-book version apparently intended to support agendas of the impenetrably adolescent Left. A few points: First, slavery was always bad, frequently hideous, much worse in the Deep South than in Tidewater or New York, and consequent to the same desire for cheap labor that now results in importing Mexicans and exporting jobs to China. Any notion that ab...more »

*The Arizona Republic, KSDK:* *Army veteran's dying wish is to hear from you* PHOENIX — An Army veteran with a terminal illness has a final wish that we can all help with. It's doesn't require much effort on our part but would make a world of difference to a man who served his country. He wants us, you, to send him text messages or give him a call. Lee Hernandez, who is under hospice care at his home in New Braunfels, Texas, has continuous strokes that have affected his vision and cognitive abilities. The 47-year-old’s body is deteriorating despite three brain surgeries, accordin...more »

Speaking at an air power conference, David Goldfein said the military needed to 'jump on' industry plans when it came to innovative technology such as Virgin Galactic (file pic) *Daily Mail:* *SAS could one day travel through space to get to war zones in an hour, says US Air Force head* * Chief of Staff David Goldfein raised idea of elite troops using mothership * Speaking at London conference, he said military needed innovative technology * He referred to Sir Richard Branson's space travel company, Virgin Galactic Special Forces troops could travel through space to get to war zones...more »

Screen capture of test footage. *Popular Mechanics*: *New Footage Shows the Perils of F-35 Flight Testing* Test pilots push the envelope, and sometimes the envelope pushes back. Previously unseen footage of the F-35 in flight testing lays bare an important fact: the work of test pilots is dangerous. A video of a F-35 Joint Strike Fighter flight safety seminar shows two incidents in which pilots risked their lives while attempting what will eventually be commonplace tasks—midair refueling and a night landing on a warship. *Read more* .... *WNU Editor*: Ouch!

*Phillip Schneider* - A warning to women who use these very common beauty products. The post Warning – Hair Dyes, Straighteners, Relaxers Now Shown to Increase Risk of Breast Cancer appeared first on Waking Times.

I never forget Bastille Day; it's my parents wedding anniversary and I thought that was the coolest thing about their marriage. That Donald Trump was the guest of honor for the celebration of it today is a little bizarre, considering what it was all about. Conservatives may be more comfortables referring to July 14 as *la Fête nationale rather *than as Bastille Day, but it does commemorate the historic storming on the Bastille and the oomph that gave the French Revolution. The spark that set the day off was the firing of Jacques Necker, the finance minister-- who was known to be s...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:30 P.M.) – The Russian Mil helicopter design bureau has completed a new transport helicopter, built specifically for the carrying-out of counter-terrorism operations: the Mi-171Sh-VN. The helicopter is the result of Russian combat experience in the Syrian theater. The Mi-171Sh-VN is a heavy overhaul of the older Mi-8/17 class of transport helicopters which […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:20 P.M.) – The popular pro-government paramilitary group, Desert Hawks Brigade (Liwaa Suqour Al-Sahra), have withdrawn their forces from the ongoing east Hama offensive. While several reasons have been given for their departure, a local source reports discontent with the other pro-government units as the primary reason. The Desert Hawks were deployed for […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:55 P.M.) – Russia’s State Duma unanimously ratified a protocol related to the deployment of personnel to Russia’s Hmeymim air base in Syria’s Latakia Governorate from Moscow on Friday. “At first, we were discussing an agreement of unlimited duration, however, while working with the Syrian side we jointly decided that we would lay […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:05 P.M.) – Another round of clashes have broken out between the two largest jihadist groups in Syria, opposition activists reported from Idlib. According to local reports, Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham launched a powerful attack against their former allies from Harakat Ahrar Al-Sham in the eastern countryside of Idlib, resulting in a series of […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Wikimedia Commons *Ciro Scotti, Fiscal Times*:* F-35 Total Costs Climb Past $1.5 Trillion — How High Will They Go?* Will it ever be clear what the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – the most expensive weapons system in history – has cost American taxpayers? On Monday, a Pentagon report to Congress predicted that the total cost of developing and producing 2,456 of the stealth jets, up from 2,443, may be as high as $406.5 billion. As Bloomberg first reported, that possible 7 percent increase — $27.5 billion — in so-called acquisition costs comes after years of declining estimates. It also...more »

*Michael Peck* *Security, * A debate that continues to rage. Inexpensive Russian and Chinese weapons, such as cyberwar and antiship missiles, threaten the West’s reliance on expensive arms such as aircraft carriers. “China and Russia appear to have focused many (but not all) their efforts on being able to put at risk the key Western assets that are large, few in number and expensive,” reads a recent study by the Royal United Services Institute, a British military think tank. “Western governments have become acutely aware of the problems of this financial imbalance in the counte...more »

*Michael Peck* *Security, Europe* Yes, this almost happenned. Switzerland emerged from World War II unconquered but not untarnished. Switzerland did survive as a free, democratic state in a Europe prostrate under the Nazi jackboot. But the Swiss also emerged under a cloud of collaboration with the Third Reich. Handling gold looted by the Nazis in return for minerals that kept the German war machine running, or keeping billions in assets belonging to Holocaust victims, is hardly something for the Swiss to yodel about. Yet it is equally unfair to brand the Swiss as Nazi puppets. ...more »

*Reuters:* *House backs massive increase in defense spending* WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a massive annual defense bill on Friday, leaving out controversial amendments on transgender troops and climate policy but backing President Donald Trump's desire for a bigger, stronger military. The vote was 344-81 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets military policy and authorizes up to $696 billion in spending for the Department of Defense. Underscoring bipartisan support for higher defense spending in Congress...more »

America rules this world or so you think but really its an onion and when the skin is all pulled back City of London The world has been fighting back for centuries without clear victory but Germany stands as a statue to progressive thought success So now for the progressives in the world and in particular America to hand their collective hats on the Trump Russia collective is insane. Just because a former President brought down the twin towers without question does not mean everyone can control the reality distortion field to their program

Published on Jul 14, 2017 CNN’s epic fails keep getting worse, and their channel has become almost impossible to distinguish from an SNL skit. Here are just a few of the most recent examples. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. end

"Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory. Their young, blue star clusters and pink star forming regions along sweeping spiral arms are guaranteed to attract attention. But small irregular galaxies form stars too, like NGC 4449, about 12 million light-years distant. Less than 20,000 light-years across, the small island universe is similar in size, and often compared to our Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). *Click image for larger size.* This remarkable Hubble Space Telescope close-up of the well-studied galaxy was reprocessed to highlight t...more »

*"The Fleeting Happiness of Life"* By Jocelyn Soriano "The truth is, there is no one place, however we may envy it, which would be indisputably good for us to occupy; much less for us to remain in. The zest of life, like the pleasure which we receive from a work of art, or from nature, comes from undulations –from inequalities; not from any monotony, even though it be the monotony of seeming perfection. The beauty of the landscape depends upon contrasts, and would be lost in one common surface of splendor. The grandeur of the waves is in the deep hollows, as well as the culminatin...more »

Far from adding a sinister twist to the meeting between Donald Trump Junior and the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, the presence at the meeting of Rinat Akhmetshin, a US citizen, has provided a witness who has corroborated Donald Trump Junior's account of it. The post Donald Trump Junior’s account of meeting with Russian lawyer corroborated appeared first on The Duran.

Is there anything new that can be said about Organized Crime? It's been an integral part of his story from the beginning. And he runs his own crime family like a Mafia Don. People openly call his slow-witted eldest son "Fredo" and virtually all of his attorneys-- from Roy Cohn right up to the scumbags repping him today-- are sleazy criminal characters who work for mobsters, oligarchs and other anti-social types. The brand new *New Republic,* in a cover story called Married to the Mob, highlights just one area of Señor Tumpanzee's criminality-- his long-standing and very much bur...more »

Courtesy of the New York Times: *Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he flew to Paris to take part in Bastille Day celebrations, Mr. Trump offered his first extended account of a dramatic closed-door meeting he held with Mr. Putin last week in Hamburg, Germany. * *“I said to him, ‘Were you involved in the meddling with the election?’” Mr. Trump recalled. “He said, ‘Absolutely not. I was not involved.’ He was very strong on it. I then said to him, in a totally different way, ‘Were you involved with the meddling?’ He said, ‘I was not — absolutely not.’”* Putin then changed the...more »

Update July 14 A new study has looked into the Syrian civil war, which has been the poster child for those claiming climate causes human conflict. h\t to Mike Hulme who posted Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War Revisited The study concluded: “For proponents of the view that anthropogenic climate change will become a […]

From *Wikipedia: *The Boys from Brazil is a 1978 British-American science fiction thriller film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It stars Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier and features James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Denholm Elliott, and Steve Guttenberg in supporting roles. The film is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Ira Levin, and was nominated for three Academy Awards. *Read more* ....more »

Originally posted on Climate Etc.: By Javier The existence of a ~ 2400-year climate cycle, discovered in 1968 by Roger Bray, is supported by abundant evidence from vegetation changes, glacier re-advances, atmospheric changes reflected in alterations in wind patterns, oceanic temperature and salinity changes, drift ice abundance, and changes in precipitation and temperature. This is…

Originally posted on polarbearscience: I did considerable research on polar bear attacks for my thriller of a novel EATEN — which many readers are finding a welcome change from the numbers-and-statistics approach of science — and I have to say that a recently published scientific summary of this phenomenon (1880-2014) authored by biologist James Wilder and colleagues…

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